I made the Brown Noser at the end of fall 2000, shortly after I finished my first Lego comic story "Captain Ahnee and the Dipwads." The comical name was necessary in order to tie in this craft with Captain Ahnee's main spacecraft, the Nasal Avenger. So I stuck with the general shnoz theme and figured a MOC with the name Brown Noser was bound to get some laughs.